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Julie Rovner
KFF Health News
Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly well being coverage information podcast, “What the Health?” A famous professional on well being coverage points, Julie is the creator of the critically praised reference e-book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third version.
The Supreme Court this week dominated in favor of Tennessee’s regulation banning most gender-affirming look after minors — a regulation much like these in two dozen different states.
Meanwhile, the Senate remains to be hoping to finish work on its model of President Donald Trump’s big finances reconciliation invoice earlier than the July Fourth break. But deeper cuts to the Medicaid program than these included within the House-passed invoice may show tough to swallow for average senators.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Victoria Knight of Axios, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call.
Panelists
Victoria Knight
Axios
Alice Miranda Ollstein
Politico
Sandhya Raman
CQ Roll Call
Among the takeaways from this week’s episode:
The Supreme Court’s ruling on gender-affirming look after transgender minors was comparatively restricted in its scope. The majority didn’t tackle the broader query about whether or not transgender people are protected below federal anti-discrimination legal guidelines and, as with the court docket’s resolution overturning the constitutional proper to an abortion, left states the facility to find out what care trans youths could obtain.
The Senate GOP unveiled its model of the finances reconciliation invoice this week. Defying expectations that senators would soften the invoice’s affect on well being care, the proposal would make deeper cuts to Medicaid, largely on the expense of hospitals and different suppliers. Republican senators say these cuts would permit them extra flexibility to resume and prolong lots of Trump’s tax cuts.
The Medicare trustees are out this week with a brand new forecast for this system that covers primarily these over age 65, predicting insolvency by 2033 — even earlier than anticipated. There was bipartisan assist for together with a crackdown on a supplier follow referred to as upcoding within the reconciliation invoice, a transfer that would have saved a bundle in authorities spending. But no substantive cuts to Medicare spending finally made it into the laws.
With the third anniversary of the Supreme Court resolution overturning Roe v. Wade approaching, the motion to finish abortion has largely coalesced round one objective: stopping individuals from accessing the abortion tablet mifepristone.
Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists recommend well being coverage tales they learn this week that they assume it’s best to learn, too:
Julie Rovner: The New York Times’ “The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security,” by Alexandra Berzon, Nicholas Nehamas, and Tara Siegel Bernard.
Victoria Knight: The New York Times’ “They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling,” by Kashmir Hill.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: Wired’s “What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body,” by Emily Mullin.
Sandhya Raman: North Carolina Health News and The Charlotte Ledger’s “Ambulance Companies Collect Millions by Seizing Wages, State Tax Refunds,” by Michelle Crouch.
Also talked about on this week’s podcast:
Credits
Francis Ying
Audio producer
Emmarie Huetteman
Editor
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